Wooten’s best known work, the Lenoir County Courthouse was designed by Wooten and his associate John Rowland and built by contractor T. A. Loving with funding from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). One of eastern North Carolina’s most imposing public buildings and the epitome of the eclectic modernism of its era, the massive structure has a limestone-clad exterior and austere in-antis portico. Its classically inspired form is rendered in Art Moderne style interspersed with Art Deco features, such as the bronze geometric grilles at the windows and the bas relief sculptures of tobacco leaves and American Indians with peace pipes.